Interesting research highlighted on Mashable, about what people potentially miss out on by spending time online:
Even so, this computer time has a notable impact, eating into things like sleep, work, travel and household chores. For every minute that they spend lazing on the computer, Americans spend approximately 16 fewer seconds working, seven fewer seconds sleeping, six fewer seconds traveling, four fewer seconds doing household chores and three fewer seconds educating themselves. Although Wallsten can’t prove that more computer time causes less sleep, for instance, he concludes “that online activities, even when free from monetary transactions, are not free from opportunity cost.”
Always worth thinking about what we gain/what we lose, and how much choice we have in all this! Read full blog post.
